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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Svetlana
Alexievich
(Nobel
Prize in Literature 2015)
Martin
Baron
(Washington Post executive editor)
Tom Brokaw
(
NBC News
anchor, commentator)
Michael Keaton
(actor/director)
Mai
Khoi
(
Vietnamese singer/activist, 2018 laureate-
Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent
)
David
McCullough
(author, historian)
Jose Omar
Rabago
Vital
(past chair,
International
Free Expression Exchange
— IFEX)
Jillian
York
(director of international
f
ree
e
xpression,
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
; deputy chair, IFEX)
INCORPORATING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ex officio:
Greg Victor
: IFEP founder, executive director;
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
senior editor
Chair:
Sara Longo
: IFEP co-organizer; Carnegie Mellon
CREATE Lab
startup manager; director -
Airviz
;
lead representative -
EarthTime
Vice Chair:
Henry J. Simonds
: filmmaker; artist; entrepreneur; president -
Henry John Simonds Foundation
(
Hillman Family Foundations
)
Treasurer:
Tony Norman
: columnist-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cahssey Augenstein; patron, adviser (Cleveland)
Arthur Steven
Beeman
: partner,
Crowell & Moring LLP
(San Francisco)
Phil Hallen
: retired president-
Maurice Falk Foundation
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE CORE WORKING GROUP
Bill Flanagan
: chief corporate relations officer,
Allegheny Conference for Community Development
Anne Stark Locher
: strategic communications consultant; board member -
The MacDowell Colony
,
Aperture
Martha Rial
: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
Rekha Shukla
: independent evaluator of nonprofit and government programs
Caroline Suh
: art curator; fashion producer
Jordan Taylor
: filmmaker; musician; teacher
Alexander Woodring
: communications-design-media consultant; former Media Project Manager - Carnegie Mellon
CREATE Lab
COLLABORATORS
SPECIAL ADVISERS
Ken Paulson
(president,
First
Amendment
Center
; former president,
Newseum
; former editor-in-chief -
USA TODAY
)
Barbara
Elfman
(former
director,
Boston Metropolitan
Waterworks Museum
)
John
Hillkirk
(senior editor,
Kaiser Health News
; former editor-in-chief -
USAToday)
Ascender
Forbes Funds
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
PATRONS / EVENT HOSTS
Arthur Steven
Beeman
(partner,
Crowell & Moring LLP
/ San Francisco)
Anne Starke
Locher
(strategic communications consultant, boards of
Aperture Foundation
,
MacDowell Colony
/ New York)
PRIMARY CONTRIBUTORS
Henry John Simonds Foundation (Hillman Family Funds
)
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Block Communications Inc.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
William W. Victor
Cahssey and Don Augenstein
John Oller
Jill and
Norbert Buelsing
Gifting Fund
Jonathan Friendly
Arthur Beeman
and
Cate Elsten
Crowell & Moring LLP
Doug Holladay
Rob Long
,
Clearstory
Carol Steytler, first woman 'pressman' at the Pittsburgh Press / Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1980-2014)
LEGAL COUNSEL
Eric Davis
(managing partner,
Elliott & Davis PC
/ Pittsburgh)
Arthur Steven
Beeman
(founding partner,
Beeman & Muchmore LLP
/ San Francisco / pro bono)
Margaret Sitko
(founding member, Sitko Bruno / real estate / Pittsburgh)
About
Our Mission
What we do
Where We Started
Why We Do It
Who We Are
Projects
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Creations
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